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    <h1>Supernova Frequently Asked Questions</h1>

    <p><a href="help.html">Back to help page.</a></p>

    <p>Feel free to ask questions on the subreddit!<br /><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/supernovawebgame/">https://www.reddit.com/r/supernovawebgame/</a></p>

    <h2>Is there a tutorial?</h2>
    <p>I've uploaded a short tutorial video to YouTube (apologies for the loud sound effects!): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhuKhw_VRA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhuKhw_VRA</a>.</p>
    <p>The basic principle in single player is to defend yourself tower-defense style and, when you've put yourself in a position of power by researching all of the necessary ship technologies, to go and find enemy planets and bombard them via the Invade ability. If you take out an enemy planet's entire population, then that planet can no longer send ships to attack you.</p>

    <h2>Can I build anything other than a probe?</h2>
    <p>Once you have selected a ship (which is already the case when you make a new one), then you can right click a star, planet, ship or empty space to move it there.</p>
    <p>You can use the Research button to unlock slots in the ship construction panel.</p>

    <h2>If two ships are on top of each other, with the exact same stats, how do I seperate them from each other?</h2>
    <p>You can box select the ships and press X to scatter them, otherwise click the top one and move it.</p>

    <h2>How do you populate other planets in your own system?</h2>
    <p>You can only populate green planets. You need to research Colonisation and then build a ship with one colony slot assigned. Move the ship to a green planet and then hit the Colonise button.</p>

    <h2>Once you've lowered an enemy planet's population to zero can you colonize it?</h2>
    <p>Only when all planets in a system are depopulated.</p>

    <h2>How do I make money?</h2>
    <p>Do one or more of the following:</p>
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        <li>Collect goodies from wrecks. There's a chance that you will pick up gold.</li>
        <li>Pick up a lump-sum of gold from planets that display that collectable gold is present.</li>
        <li>Use mining ships to mine gold from planets that have it.</li>
        <li>Create a mining base on a previously-barren planet that has since been colonised.</li>
        <li>Build Communications Beacons to regularly produce gold per population point on a planet.</li>
        <li>Disband ships after researching the Reclamation ability.</li>
    </ul>

    <h2>How do I acquire more research points?</h2>
    <p>Do one or more of the following:</p>
    <ul>
        <li>Pick up a lump-sum of research points from planets that display that research points are present.</li>
        <li>Find unexplored star systems and explore them for a lump sum per system.</li>
        <li>Build Research Centers to regularly produce research points per population point on a planet.</li>
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    <h2>I don't know when I'm allowed to research more stuff. I mean I get that the button becomes ungrey, but does building more research stations let me research fast?</h2>
    <p>The bottom of the screen indicates how many research points you have acquired, and how many you need to research the next technology. Building research stations increases the rate of research per population point on the planet.</p>
    <p>A sound will also play when research opportunities become available.</p>

    <h2>How do you defend yourself early game?</h2>
    <p>To defend yourself early game, research Attack and then build ships with one attack level assigned. As the game progresses you will need to research to get additional attack slots. Mix and match with shields, armour and speed slots as time progresses.</p>

    <h2>The mining base does not seem to work?</h2>
    <p>A mining base requires that you first research the facility, then build it on a populated planet that shows it has gold present.</p>

    <h2>Can units be placed into formation?</h2>
    <p>Yes, press X to scatter the selected units and then press F to place them into formation. The ships will no longer converge.</p>

    <h2>Is it possible to give a ship multiple orders, such as waypoints?</h2>
    <p>Yes, if you hold down the control key you can queue up movement orders.</p>    

    <h2>How do you unlock mobile artillery? I built a planetary artillery cannon, which wasn't what I was looking for.</h2>
    <p>Research Attack I, Invade I, Invade II, Artillery Pods then build ships that have Attack I and Invade II slots assigned.</p>

    <h2>Is there a way to defend against artillery?</h2>
    <p>Artillery is meant to be a game-ender, so at present there is no way to defend against it short of defeating your opponent (or at least depopulating the system with the artillery on it). Incidentally, if you take over the system I believe you gain the artillery for your own use.</p>
    
    <h2>How can I load and save ship designs?</h2>
    <p>Currently, you can only save and load one preset. Click save to "save" your current set up, and click load to overwrite your current set up with whatever you had previously saved. There are plans to improve presets.</p>

    <h2>Are you hosting this on a Raspberry Pi?</h2>
    <p>Yes, it's my platform for experimentation and I'm glad it hasn't fallen over yet. Be kind to the server!</p>

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